Mine detail: Phoenix Mine

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long: 40.10081, -75.52042

Resource(M)

Tertiary: Antimony, Nickel, Arsenic, Cadmium, Cobalt, Copper, Lead, Molybdenum, Silver, Zinc
Other material: Anglesite, Ankerite, Aragonite, Azurite, Barite, Calamine, Calcite, Cerussite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Cuprite, Dolomite, Fluorite, Galena, Goethite, Limonite, Malachite, Pyrite, Pyromorphite, Quartz, Sphalerite
Discovery year: 1850

Production

Operation type: Underground
Development status: Past Producer
First production started: 1851

Geology

References

MAS420290033
DEP10250601
Reference{Deposit:: MILLER, BENJAMIN L, LEAD AND ZINC ORES OF PENNSYLVANIA, PA G}{Deposit:: BULL M5, 1924}{Deposit:: BASCOM AND STOSE, GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE HONEY}{Deposit:: AND PHOENIXVILLE QUADRANGLES, USGS BULL 891, 1938}{Deposit:: LAPHAM AND GEYER, MINERAL COLLECTING IN PENNSYLVANIA, PA GEO}{Deposit:: BULL G33, 2ND ED, 1965}{Deposit:: ICKES, HAROLD L, PICKERING CREEK MINES, BUMINES WAR MINERAL}{Deposit:: REGIONAL FILE E-974, JUNE 1944}{Deposit:: ROSE, ARTHUR W, ATLAS OF PENNSYLVANIAS MINERAL RESOURCES, PA}{Deposit:: PA GEOL SUR BULL M50, 1970}{Deposit:: REED, DONALD F, INVESTIGATION OF PICKERING CREEK LEAD-ZINC D}{Deposit:: BUMINES RI-4451, MAY 1949}{Deposit:: REED, DONALD F, PICKERING CREEK LEAD-ZINC DEPOSITS, BUMINES}{Deposit:: PUBLISHED RPT 91.974, CONFIDENTIAL, 1949}{Deposit:: GORDON, SAMUEL G, MINERALOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA, SPEC PUB NO 1,}{Deposit:: NATL SCI OF PHILADELPHIA, 1922}{Deposit:: ROGERS, HENRY D, GEOLOGY OF PENNSYLVANIA, VOL 2, J.B. LIPPIN}{Deposit:: AND CO, PHILADELPHIA, 1858}{Deposit:: ASHLEY, GEORGE H, SYLLABUS OF PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGY AND MINER}{Deposit:: RESOURCES, PA GEOL SUR BULL G1, 1931}
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